How Scientists Know Alien Planet Kepler-10b is a Small, Rocky World
The newly discovered Kepler-10b isn’t the first alien planet that astronomers have announced is rocky. But they’re more sure about Kepler-10b’s composition than they’ve been before, because they know its host star so well.
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